John Deere, That's Who!

by Tracy Nelson Maurer

Other authorsTim Zeltner (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2017

Library's review

A blacksmith, John Deere developed a lightweight plow made of steel that cut quickly and easily. The steel plow, which customers named the “singing plow,” enabled farming to evolve beyond feeding one’s family into a business. Includes Glossary, Fact Page, Bibliography

Lexile

860L

Publication

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (2017), 40 pages

Description

Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that's who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that's who! The life and accomplishments of the blacksmith who invented a steel plow to help till the thick Illinois soil and changed American farming forever.

Language

Original language

English

Pages

40

Physical description

40 p.; 11.41 inches

ISBN

1627791299 / 9781627791298

DDC/MDS

338.7

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